Method of constructing telescoping gasometers



K. JAGSCHITZ June 27, 1933.

METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING TELESCOPING GASOMETERS Filed July 22, 1929 Fig.1

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My invention relates totelescoping gasom- 7 Referring to the drawing, the letter a indieters, and more particularly to telescoping cates the fillets or ribs which serve for guidgasometers of the spiral guide type. It is an ing the annular sections of the gasometer in object of the present invention to provide a their telescoping movements. Each pair of method of constructing the several telescopic adjacent fillets bounds a surface ofrhom- 55 bells of the gasometer in a simple and economboidal form, which corresponds to the shape ical manner with plates of rectangular crossof the plates of which the gasometer wall section, and of constructing gasometer sec sections are composed. A rhomboidal plate tions of different heights with rectangular b of this kind is shown in heavy lines in Fig. 1. 10 plates of uniform size. 1 g It will be understood that in use the several 60 In telescoping gasometers provided with bells of the gasometer move bodily vertically spiral guiding means it is desirable that the nd in their collapsed condition are received rivetting of the plates of which the annular Wltlnn the stationary bottom annulus 0,

sections are composed follow the inclination Fig. 2 illustrates how, 1n accordance with of such guiding means, so that it is necessary the present lnvention, a rhomboldal plate for 65 that th r w of rivets run obliquely fro use in bullding up an annular gasometer sectop to bottom. The upwardly-extending tion may be obtainedfrom a normal reeedges of the plates must therefore be inclined tangular plate. The original plate has the to the vertical, and the blank plates must outline indicated by the numerals 1, 2, 3 and consequently be cut obliquely. This pro- 4:. This plate is out along an oblique or in- 70 cedure, as heretofore practised, namely, by clined line 5, 6. The two halves 1, 5, 6, 2 cutting away portions of the top and bottom and 5, 4, 3, 6, which are trapezoidal in conof rectangular plates along lines oblique to figuration, are then arranged in the sam the sides of the plates, resulted in a considerplane with the perpendicular edges 1, 2 and able waste of material which appeared to be 8, 4; in contact. These edges are then joined 75 n id bl to each other, as by welding, the finished The present invention aims to provide a plate having the rhomboidal form indicated method whereby the rhomboidal plates of a by the numerals 5, 6, 6, 5. As can be readily spiral gasometer may be made from normal understood from the drawing, the rhomboidal rectangular plates without loss of material. plates requlred for the spirally guided gas- 80 I accomplish such result by cutting such rec- Omcter may in this Way be made from rectangular plates in two along an oblique line tangular plates without any loss of mat rial. and uniting the two sections along their uncut To obtaln rhomboidal plates of various edg whi h ar o posite the ut dg lengths from normal rectangular plates of thereby producing a plate of rhomboidal uniform size, the oblique cut is made away 85 form. By cutting the rectangular plat from the middle of the plates, and the secalong oblique lines mo or l di t t fr none of dlfferent size so obtained are united the centers of such plates and uniting th in varlous ways. Figs. 3, 4. and 5 illustrate larger or smaller sections in suitable manner, his procedure and the difierent sizes of I obtain rhomboidal plates of various heights rhomboidal plates obtained thereby. In all so or lengths from rectangular plates ofunithree figures the original rectangular plate form size. is shown in full lines. In Fig. 3 the oblique In order that my invention may be b tt r cut is shown through the center of the plate, understood, reference is had to the accom- While in Figs. 4 and 5 the cut is made away panying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a diafrom the center. By uniting the halves a: grammatic view in elevation of a telescopic and y of Fig. 1n the manner described gasometer composed of four sections and above, a rhomboidal plate of helght h is obadapted to be guided spirally; and Figs. 2, 8, tained. In Fig. 4 the section y is shown 4 and 5 illustrate several ways in which the joined to the larger section m of the plate 50 invention may be carried out. of Fig. 5, whereby a rhomboidal plate of is considerably Fig. 3. By unitof Fig. 5 and w of is produced which plates without alteration of the plates or of the cut sections thereof and without waste of material.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim:

1. The method of constructing the annular sections of a telescoping gasometer of the spirally guided type, which comprises cut ting rectangular plates along an oblique line so that each plate is divided into two nonrectangular parts, uniting the parts in pairs along the uncut edges thereof which are opposite the cut edges, whereby plates of rhomboidal configuration are produced, and then uniting said plates to form an annular gasometer section whose height is equal to the height of said plates and whose plates are curved spirally in correspondence with the spiral curve of the guideways of said gasometer.

2. The method of constructing the annular sections of a telescoping gasometer of the spirally guided type, which comprises cutting rectangular plates ofuniform size along an oblique line removed from the gasometric center of such plates, so that each plate is divided into two unequal, non-rectangular parts, uniting the arts in pairs along the uncut edges thereoi which are opposite the cut edges, whereby plates of rhomboidal configuration of the same height or of difierent heights are produced, and then uniting rhomboi'dal plates of equal height to form an annular gasometer section, or a plurality of gasometer sections of different heights, whose height is equal to the plates and whose plates are curved spirally in correspondence with the spiral curve of the guideways of said gasometer.

Signed at Munich, Germany, this 11th day of July A. D. 1929.

- KONRAD JAGSCHITZ.

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